ST. GEORGE SCHOOL

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 5

ST. GEORGE SCHOOL

£3BOO GRANT AUTHORISED. The secretary of the Southland Education Board received leleirraphic advice yesterday to the effect that a grant of £3BOO for the new school at George street. South Invercargill, had been authorised. This grant provides for the erection of a six-roomed school, and the architect has been instructed to complete his plans of the building. Some difficulty has been experienced in getting the grant, and the matter has several times been the subject of reference in public by members of the Board. The original intention of the Board waa to erect a school of the size now authorised, but the Department wished the local authority to modify the proposal. With the steady growth of the district in which the school is to be situated in mind the Board considered it inadvisable that any modification should take place. The school now authorised will accommodate 300 pupils, and it is understood that an effort is to be made to complete it before the end of January. Needless to say the opening of a School in George street will relieve the congestion at the South School, and what is considered more important, it wilt shorten the distances many of the pupils of that school have to travel.